Featured Titles for 2025

If we are the forest the animals dream

Patrick Cahill

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $18
Page count: 94
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-41-7

Plagios/Plagiarisms, Volume III

Poems by Ulalume González de León

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $20
Page count: 180
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-39-4

In the Eye of the Elephant

Moira Magneson

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $18
Page count: 118
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-37-0

the department of peace

Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $18
Page count: 104
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-40-0

Waking Up: Teen Poets Respond to America, We Call Your Name

Selected by Simon Ellefson, Sylvi Kayser, and Dina Lusztig Noyes

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $12
Page count: 62
Publication date: September 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-46-2

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Readings for 2024 Books

April 10, Wednesday, Readers’ Books, 7 p.m. 103 East Napa St., Sonoma Alice Templeton, Murray Silverstein, Christina Lloyd April 14, Sunday, Book Passage, 4 p.m. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera Murray Silverstein, Christina Lloyd, Alice Templeton April 20,...

Publish with Sixteen Rivers Press

Sixteen Rivers Press invites Northern California authors to submit book-length poetry manuscripts between November 1, 2024, and February 1, 2025. We look forward to reading your work.

Welcome to Our New Press Members

Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong has creations in video, dance, spoken word, live music and software. ravel, her first book, was a finalist for prizes by White Pine Press and New Rivers Press.  Her second book, The Quenching (Finishing Line Press, 2022), furthers her...

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